-
Feed their imagination with a Playhouse
Continue ReadingCollaborative Post When I think back to my childhood, I can still remember my Playhouse (or Wendy House as they were known when I was a child). I didn’t have a wooden one; I had a plastic red and yellow one I loved. I would forever be taking my dolls and teddies into it for […]
-
Book Review: Night Zookeeper and The Spying Giraffes
Continue ReadingI have always loved reading with the Beans, it’s something which we have done since they were babies but I have to admit I love it even more now when reading to Little Bean as she is at the age where she is interested in ‘real’ books with proper chapters. For the past week we […]
-
What activities do you do after school?
Continue ReadingAfter school I tend to keep ourselves pretty busy to avoid the pleas for watching the TV or worse still the continuous arguments of children who are overtired from a day at school. On nice days (and often on some rainy days) we will go out for a walk, collecting leaves, looking for treasures or […]
-
National Tell A Story Day: A Story by Curly (13yrs)
Continue ReadingToday, Monday 27th April 2015 is National Tell A Story Day and Mecca Bingo have challenged me to come up with my very own story. I have always enjoyed writing but one thing I often struggle with is writing a story, it just doesn’t come naturally to me. I can write about my thoughts and […]
-
“Do you wanna build a snowman?” . . . “Nope, we want to build a den!!”
Continue ReadingWell, to be fair it IS Autumn and there isn’t much snow around, plus we haven’t got magical powers. BUT we have got an imagination and that’s all it takes (ok plus a few random materials from around the house) to make a den!! I have to admit that building dens with my children was […]
-
Camping with the Gruffalo and Learning Resources
Continue ReadingYesterday started out like any normal day, in fact most of the day was normal until we returned home. Beanie Boy, Jelly Bean and I were playing in the garden (as you do). We set up a beach shelter in the garden as our ‘den’ and opened up a box of goodies from Learning Resources; […]
